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In Spain we have a national id document. It's the size of a credit card and has your photo (and we all look like terrorists in that photo 🤪). And nobody dies for having it in the wallet.
The weird thing in the US is we will never, ever have a mandatory National ID, because too many people think the government would abuse it. Reagan even called the idea the Mark of the Beast.
But we have our Social Security Numbers, which were originally supposed to just be a thing the government used internally, and in fact the SSN was never supposed to be used as ID. But lazy companies still did, anyway. I am old enough that when I went to college, my SSN was directly used as my student ID, and had to be entered on all forms, and I still have some of my physical grade reports with the whole SSN printed on it, in plain text.
But since it is tied in to income tax reporting, most financial institutions need to have it, and then it expanded to credit reporting bureaus, and now simply knowing someone's SSN and address is enough to open fraudulent accounts. The Government never mandated that, it was lazy companies who decided not to issue their own numbers.
So maybe Reagan had a point, but it wasn't the government we needed to be afraid of back then. But in Trump's America, anyone who looks "foreign" will be presumed to be here illegally unless they can produce a magic document. (Even, ironically, indigenous peoples whose heritage here dates back much further than all the people in charge right now.)